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Latest Album Reviews
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Album review : DAN SEALS – 4 albums on 2 CDs – Stones/Harbinger/Walking The Wire/All Fired Up
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Album review: SCARLET REBELS – Flawed By Design
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Album review: CATS IN SPACE – Suit of Armour
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Album review: HANOI ROCKS – The Complete Collection 1981-1984
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Album review : IRON SAVIOR – Death Bringer
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Album review: MASON HILL – World So Wonderful
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review : DAN SEALS – 4 albums on 2 CDs – Stones/Harbinger/Walking The Wire/All Fired Up
Cherry Red [Release date : 13.11.26] Talented Texas brothers, Dan and Jim Seals were big in popular music in the 80s and 90s, mostly in the USA. Jim nicknamed his brother “England Dan”, as a reference to the fact that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Payne, Cherry Red, country, Dan Seals, David Foster, Jim Seals, Kenny Rogers, review, soft rock, Steve Lukather, Texas
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Album review: SCARLET REBELS – Flawed By Design
Earache Records [Release date 13.11.26] No pressure on the lads in Scarlet Rebels as their previous album, 2024′s ‘Where Colours Meet’ made the Albums of the Year selections for myself and fellow scribes, Karen Clayton and Andy Nathan. Amazingly this … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Flawed By Design, hard rock, modern rock, review, rock, Scarlet Rebels
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Album review: CATS IN SPACE – Suit of Armour
Cherry Red Records/Esoteric Antenna (Release Date 6.11.26) The last couple of years have seen some changes in the Cats in Space camp with two long-time members leaving. Allied to their inexplicable failure to make the big time, I did fear … Continue reading
Album review: HANOI ROCKS – The Complete Collection 1981-1984
UMR [Release date 13.11.26] Helsinki, 1979. A band forms itself that would go on to have a massive impact on some of the biggest bands of the eighties and nineties. They are also, hands down, my favourite band. Vastly underrated … Continue reading
Album review : IRON SAVIOR – Death Bringer
Frontiers [Release date : 13.11.26] Back blending power metal with popular science fiction, Iron Savior are one of a crop of European Power Metal bands who are currently cresting a resurgent wave of interest in the genre. Their all new … Continue reading
Album review: MASON HILL – World So Wonderful
7Hz Productions [Release date 23.10.26] The latest Mason Hill album is a significant departure for the band, following the loss of original vocalist Scott Taylor and the arrival of Tom Ward. They seem to have toughened up for a more … Continue reading
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Tagged album, hard rock, Mason Hill, metal, nu-metal, review, World So Wonderful
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Album review : HARMONY IN MY HEAD – The Music That Inspired The Genius Of Brian Wilson
Cherry Red [Release date 13.11.26] It’s tempting to say that this is a departure for the Cherry Red label. But that would not be true. This is a label who takes his music from a diversity of sources and styles. … Continue reading
Album review : ASIA – Indigo
Frontiers Music [Release date: 6.12.26] Nowadays, Asia is Geoff Downes, Virgil Donati, John Mitchell and Harry Whitley. We reviewed the band’s most recent release, Live In England, back in March this year. This new studio album is quite special. The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Arcadia, Asia, Frontiers, Geoff Downes, Harry Whitley, Indigo, John Mitchell, John Wetton, review, Valencia, Virgil Donati
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Quick play reviews: CHRISTOPHER GORDON, AVRAK
CHRISTOPHER GORDON Macbeth Madfish [Release date 30.10.26] An ambitious project by noted English born Australian composer, he was originally commissioned for a full-length ballet score for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and West Australian Ballet, This 8-movement suite has been … Continue reading
Album review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – Far And Wide
InsideOut Music [Release date 09.10.26] After 20 years with KScope, prog metal band The Pineapple Thief make their debut with Inside Out. With roots going back to 1999, the band centre around vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Bruce Soord, and bassist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bruce Soord, Far And Wide, Insideout Music, prog metal, prog rock, review, The Pineapple Thief
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Album review: PURE REASON REVOLUTION – Terrifying Angels
InsideOut Music [Release date 25.09.26] Pure Reason Revolution formed in 2003, heavily influenced by the 90s alternative metal scene, giving a solid yet aggressive edge to the metal. A few line-up changes, and a split/reformation later, the band’s new album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, melodic, metal, progressive, Pure Reason Revolution, review, rock, Terrifying Angels
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Album review : NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE – River Of Light
InsideOut Music [Release date 27.11.26] ‘River of Light’ is the second album released by Neal Morse & The Resonance, following on from 2024’s ‘No Hill For A Climber’. Although that initial release raised a few eyebrows, mainly around Morse’s decision … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBURN – thirty-seven
Website [Release date 04.11.26] Formed in Bangalore in 2011, Rainburn have built an international reputation through a series of releases and extensive touring across India. After surviving a near-death experience while stranded at sea, Rainburn frontman Vats Iyengar transformed the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Depeche Mode, Pain of Salvation, prog rock, progressive, Rainburn, rock, thirty-seven
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Album review: KELLI BAKER – Mother
Gulf Coast Records [Release date 13.11.26] ‘Mother’ is a well honed and passionately sung conceptual rock-blues debut album from a New York based, Arizona raised vocalist, who makes the most of some cross-genre impulses to broach funk, soul and Americana. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, beth Hart, blues, Bonnie Raitt, Dana Fuchs, funk, Keb Mo, Kelli Baker, Layla Zoe, Mother, Noé Socha, Peter Levin, Pink Floyd, review, rock, Sari Shorr, Sass Jordan, soul, Susan Tedeschi, Teresa James, The McCrary Sisters, Zach Allen
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Album review: ADAM SWEET – Mortuary Blues
Mortuary Music [Release date 02.10.26] Adam Sweet’s 3rd album ‘Mortuary Blues’ (he’s also released 2 EP’s), is a well crafted roots rock album which straddles classic rock, blues, funk and occasional hints of Nashville. The album title is not the … Continue reading
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Tagged ADAM SWEET, album, Alex Hart, Bad Company, blues, Deep Purple, funk, Gary Kroll, Hugh Moffatt, Jas Scott, Mortuary Blues, Neil Young, Paddy Blight, Phoebe Little, review, rock, roots, southern rock, Steve Stills, Thomas Hughes
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Album review: AFTERLIFE – The Pain That Shapes Us
Mascot Records [Release date 06.11.26] This album is a lyrical letter of a pain and suffering that nobody should have to experience. Battling with inner demons and substances that surround us. The downward spirals we have and not seeing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife, album, alt metal, Mascot records, melodic metal, metal, review, The Pain That Shapes Us
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Album review : HOLY TERROR – Total Terror (4 CD + DVD Clamshell Box Edtn)
Cherry Red [Release date 30.10.26] CD1 : Terror And Submission (1987) CD2 : Mind Wars (1988) CD3 : El Revengo, Rare Demo Material (1988) CD4 : Live In Dendermonde, Belgium (1988) DVD: Live In Milwaukee, Chicago and Anaheim (1988) To … Continue reading
Album review: ANN WILSON & TRIPSITTER – Consecrated Ground
Label Logic [Release date 14.08.26] 2023′s ‘Another Door’ was an indicator that Ann Wilson had reignited her musical mojo. Often referred to as one of the greatest female vocalists in rock, since 2019 Heart reunions have been affected by both … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ann Wilson, classic rock, Consecrated Ground, Heart, review, Tripsitter
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Album review : INFERNAL MAJESTY – None Shall Defy
Cherry Red [Release date : 23.10.26] The use of occult and satanic themes (and symbols) by the Thrash Metal fraternity eventually became commonplace. They were largely meaningless of course, purely a hook and an image on which to hang powerful … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK WATER REDEMPTION – Black Water Redemption
Facebook [Release date 02.10.26] God bless the 90′s. Grunge. Groove. ’70′s rock throwbacks. Rock reborn from hair metal. And bands with names like Black Water Redemption… Now THIS band know how to bring all that together, the swagger, the riffs, the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Water Redemption, grunge, hard rock, review, rock, self-titled
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Album review: MARYANN COTTON – Chester Rose
Deko Entertainment [Release date 30.10.26] Oh my lordy, a rock opera concept album! By Alice Cooper! Are we back to the ’70′s?! Listening to this ! feel like I should eating fondue while wearing a tank top. So, some background … Continue reading
Album review : CEREMONIAL OATH – Carpet
Cherry Red [Release date: 23.10.26] Nearly men among nearly men, what now defunct Swedish thrash/ death metal band, Ceremonial Oath lost in fame and recognition they gained in other ways. Primarily as the proving ground for many talented musicians, providing … Continue reading
Album review: SOFT MACHINE – Slightly All The Time, The Recordings 1970-1974
Sony [Release date 30.10.26] Now here’s a serious box, magnificent, and Canterbury progressive band Soft Machine are as deserving as any, through the quality of their output and their influence too. Formed in the mid 60s (from the ashes of … Continue reading
Album review: BIRD IN THE BELLY – Only Dogs as Friends
Website [Release date 30.10.26] Bird in the Belly comprises Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti of duo Hickory Signals together with Ben ‘Jinnwoo’ Webb and multi-instrumentalist Tom Pryor. As the press releases states, if the members of Bird in the Belly … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt folk, Bird In The Belly, folk, folk rock, indie folk, Only Dogs As Friends, review, Steeleye Span
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Album review: RICK WAKEMAN – Return To The Red Planet
Madfish [Release date 16.10.26] Following 2020’s instrumental concept album The Red Planet, the keyboard wizard, for Yes man and raconteur returns to expand on this concept, this time with vocals. Rick Wakeman found fame initially with The Strawbs, and several … Continue reading
